Winter Recess Project

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Assignment: Due 4/24/14

Reading: History of the World in Six Glasses - Chapter 5 - Tea

Questions:

Chapter 5 - Tea

  1. When did tea first become a mainstream drink in Asia? In Europe?
  2. How did the consumption of tea in Europe differ from how it was consumed in China or Japan?
  3. If tea arrived in Europe around the same time as when coffee did, why did it not find the immediate success that coffee had?
  4. How did tea transform English society? Who were its main consumers and what were some of the new rituals that surrounded tea?
  5. How was tea an integral part of the Industrial Revolution?
  6. What was the connection between tea and politics?
  7. How was tea connected to the opium trade and the Opium War of 1839-1842?
  8. What role did the tea trade and production play in the British rule over India?
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